The Interaction technology innovation course is a practice-oriented learning experience in which student apply methods of Human-Computer Interaction in designing an interactive system.

The course immerses students in a user-centred design process where they conduct user research, prototype solutions, evaluate systems and consider their designs' ethical implications.

The curriculum covers advanced design methodologies and knowledge about interaction paradigms. Practical skills in developing prototypes for tangible and embedded interaction are developed.

After completing this course the student shall be able to:

1. Design and develop the user experience
2. Apply fundamentals of user centred and human centred design
3. Select and use design methodologies (e.g. Design thinking, System thinking, Agile)
4. Select and use appropriate methods for HCI design, including design ethnography, cultural probes, participatory and co-design, design sketches, and role play.
5. Design and develop low, medium/high fidelity prototypes and use them in a design process
6. Design and implement interactions specific to physical and tangible computing, ubiquitous computing, the internet of things, social computing, mobile computing,
7. Design and implement systems for users in special domains (e.g. automotive, sport, ICT4D, cultural heritage, eHealth, eCommerce, entertainment)
8. Select appropriate sensor madalities and develop novel interaction techniques for gesture-based, tangible and touch interaction.
9. Consider the ethics and privacy issues related to HCI design
10. Apply Privacy by Design method
11. Learn to recognise possible negative ethical consequences of designs
12. Identify possible ethical fallacies with adversarial design
13. Perform design-based research including research in the wild and long term interventions

Sharp, Helen, Yvonne Rogers, and Jennifer Preece. "Interaction design: beyond human-computer interaction." (2019). Wiley. 5th edition. Any edition of this book will suffice for this course. Available through Sticky

Ishii, Hiroshi, and Brygg Ullmer. "Tangible bits: towards seamless interfaces between people, bits and atoms." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems. ACM, 1997.

• Lecture
• Group project
• Studio
• Literature seminar

• Group project presentation
• Group project report
• Individual essay